By the lake behind Best Western near Chesterton Indiana. A woman at breakfast pointed out the swans in the distance. She said there used to be three, and now there are only two. She and her husband were traveling from Colorado, taking their daughter to college in Ohio. They were locked out of their room because the dad was in there with both keys typing away on a computer and not hearing them knocking. The woman was afraid the front desk wouldn't cut her daughter another key without id. I wondered for a moment if she was worried about this because she was part African American, although the daughter looked white. I wonder if black people just get asked for id more often. The woman was a judge, and her husband a lawyer. Their daughter also wanted to study law, but the woman thought she was too shy to be a trial lawyer. Dante also wants to study law. I had never thought of shyness as a problem, I think it's just something you grow out of. I did.
Maybe the issue with the keys was because they had prior experience dealing with the front desk when they forgot their room number the night before. Dante also forgot our room number, but fortunately I still had the little keys envelope. I have only recently learned to forget numbers like other people do. I remembered the number from a phoncard in Italy in the summer of 2007 for about a year, and now I am worried about losing track of my applecores count. I wonder if I have sustained some brain damage, or if this is simply a result of getting older, or both.
It seems to be since I had surgery on my knee in December.
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